Tuesday, 19 May 2009

What was going to be a relatively concise rant about how stupid T9 is, has changed into something altogether more sinister.

First of all, just quickly, I'd like to express my infuriation at the particular brand of predictive text in my SGH J700. Don't get me wrong- predictive text is a great concept and saves time. But why, was this brilliant concept tarnished so shamelessly with the brush of idiocy?

Why does my phone give me "nun" before "mum"? Why doesn't it remember that I NEVER use the word 'nun' in text conversation? Why do I have to spell expletives? (Particularly hate that one. By virtue of the fact that you're swearing, in a text, you must be pretty annoyed. Having to manually write the word serves to further exasperate the typee.) Words that I DO type out seem to be forgotten within 5 or 10 texts anyway....

Now that I've got that off my chest, here's the main point of this post.

I've compiled over the last few weeks, a list of (what I consider) obvious words not contained within my phone's T9. I THOUGHT I could use this as a further ranting-implement. Actually, I've ended up with a very weird look at my own personality. Some of the following are completely understandable. Some, I'm struggling to remember why I ever thought of sending them in a text message....

Words not in T9:

Grandad

Trampoline

Claire

nano

cretin

tinned

georgie

aubergine

emotionless

fuck

Kiwi

Hamster

bruno

firefly

candelabra

magyar

rastafarian

I mean.... Kiwi?

Tinned??

What was I thinking?

There's a challenge.

Best implementation of the weirder words in a possible text wins. Entries below please. Bonus for using every word in the list in one vaguely comprehensible example.